Chapelle-Uree / La Chapelle-Urée

INFORMATION

FontID: 03269CHA

Object Type: Baptismal Font1

Church/Chapel: Formerly at the Eglise paroissiale Notre-Dame de La Chapelle-Urée [now disappeared]

Church Patron Saints: St. Mary the Virgin

Church Location: Le Bourg, 50370 La Chapelle-Urée, France

Country Name: France

Location: Manche, Normandie

Directions to Site: Located off (SW) the D5-D999 crossroads, about 16 km E of Avranches.

Font Location in Church: Disappeared

Century and Period: Pre-Conquest

Cognate Fonts: Le Petit-Celland?

Font Notes: Click to view

Now disappeared, this font was described by Le Héricher as a round basin on three feet, resembling "un monument druidique", primitive and ancient looking (Vivier, 1941)

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 48.666981, -1.150053

Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 48° 40′ 1.13″ N, 1° 9′ 0.19″ W

UTM: 30U 636207 5392088

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone, granite?

Font Shape: round (mounted)

Basin Interior Shape: round

Basin Exterior Shape: round

REFERENCES

Vivier, Em., Les Anciens fonts baptismaux du Département de la Manche, Avranches: Presses de "L'Opinion de la Manche", 1941